How old was baby when moved across to their own room?

[laurenann23]

Hi everyone! Me and my OH are looking to rent somewhere for a year and we're not sure whether to get a 2 or 1 bedroom place! How long did your baby stay in your room until you moved them across?

7 months
13 months
4 years

for each of mine. I had to sleep with earplugs in to mask the grunting but am such a light sleeper I'd still hear a squawk. Or DH would I suppose later on when they weren't feeding at night.

6 yrs-ish
the younger two still are still in our bed

For some reason it's rarely pointed out that the sids sleeping in the same room guideline also applies to daytime naps never a problem for me as my little sods only napped ON me

Nearly five years. No regrets, but certainly not what I'd expected! I think I imagined him going into his own at about 2 or maybe a little earlier, but he wasn't ready and, since I didn't mind, I didn't make him.

Guess I can't argue with that. I'm off to put on my 'bad mom' pjs and thank my lucky stars my kids made it through the start I gave them so far! Sleep tight all.

7 months. At which point she still fit comfortably in her Moses basket. However she was starting to get more mobile, hence the move.

Sorry guys - I'm not great at soft soaping unpalatable facts.

Interestingly, if I'd said 'women who smoke in pregnancy are much more likely to lose a baby to SIDS' none of you would have berated me for insensitivity and high handedness towards smoking mothers. But that's because smoking in pregnancy is socially frowned on, whereas putting a newborn in a room on its own is socially acceptable in the UK.

Ok so I've been in the cinema, came out and my thread has gone a bit mental 😂😂 guys I just needed some advice as to if I should go 1 or 2 bed, but judging from comments I think I'll go 2. Thanks!

Get a 2 bed place if your budget allows. It boggles my mind how much stuff you seem to accumulate with a baby.
1st moved out at 6 months, 2nd at 9 months and both sleep lots better in their own room. It's good to have the option rather than a non sleeping baby, and wondering if they might sleep if in their own room.

3 years 8 months. We have a 3-bed house. Cot was never used and was sold still boxed up! He wouldn't sleep alone.

He slept in our bed until one hot sticky summer when he preferred to sleep in his own bed - that'd been in his room for 8 months. Slept straight through from the off. I missed him then and I still do - he's 5

sorry OP!! Yep - 2 bed then you can make your own decision based on what's best for your family.

The reason as i understand it is as someone else mentioned about apnea. Babies need to be disturbed so as not to go into too much of a deep sleep as they can stop breathing. All sleeping up until at least 6 months should be in the same room as you. I know people say they know their baby best, and I'm sure they do, but it wasn't worth the risk for me. Plus it was easier to lean over and settle him when he was next to me than in the next room, that meant getting out of bed!
I don't think the reasons behind the guidelines are out there as much as they should and need to be.

Your breathing also regulates their breathing.

Dd1 18 months
Dd2 28 months.
Both only because there wasn't a spare room for them to go in. But it worked well having them in with me for than long. And no issues when they did get there own room. They both settled in straight away. Even in a new house

Own beds though

Dd, 6 years, ds 4 years, because when we got bunk beds they wanted to go in together. Co sleeping was great, and they moved out when they were ready. We still have an open bed policy now, but it's only invoked when they are ill.

You're supposed to move them to their own room?

DC1 - 3 years
DC2 - 4 years
DC3 - still here for the foreseeable as only have a 3 bed house

Would go for 2 bedrooms though, so you have the choice, or more space if he/she stays with you. Space is always good.

My DS won't go into his own room for at least a year, maybe longer depending how I feel.

He's sooooo noisy, sounds like a little piglet (as pp said above) snorting away, however it's White Noise for me & doesn't bother me!

Wouldn't sleep if he wasn't in with me (except when he's with my mum).

DD is still in with us at 7 months, I'm not planning on moving her into her own room until she feeds less frequently in the night. She is starting to take up a lot of room in our bed though, and is starting to self settle excellently so we have been thinking of moving her into her room but I like having her in with us really, she seems far too little still to sleep on her own

9 weeks because she got too long for her moses basket! And then at 2 and a half decided to come back from 1am onwards lol.

I am planning on having baby in my room for 1st 2 weeks then into nursery with a video monitor so I can get a good sleep 😀

Old That is not a good plan. Please read up on SIDS.

I second read up on the information. Little babies can't reliably remember to breath so they need to be next to an adult to hear their breathing which makes the breath. Also crying is a very late hunger cue so you need to be near so you know when they are hungry.

The SIDS guidance is based on a hypothesis. It is not yet known whether hearing parents breathing has the effect of regulating infants' breathing.
I made sure we followed the guidelines to the letter in terms of back sleeping, no co-sleeping when tired, nothing in the cot or Moses basket, no smoking and no overheating.
Then I felt quite comfortable putting my baby in her own room with an angelcare mattress at 12 weeks. And she always napped in an adjacent room during the day with v regular checks.

I can highly recommend earplugs if you have a noisy piglet like I did. You still hear them if they stir but it blocks out the snuffling and grunting a bit.

Anyone advocating breathing monitors, there's no evidence that they work to prevent SIDS, all they do is alert you to the fact it's happened. Plenty of babies have died whilst on breathing mats. Same for regular checks, doesn't help. I know they are only guidelines but would you be able to live with yourself if the worst happened and you'd not followed them.